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Are All Groups Abelian?

Robert Thorne • • 5 min read
Are All Groups Abelian?

All cyclic groups are Abelian, but an Abelian group is not necessarily cyclic. All subgroups of an Abelian group are normal. In an Abelian group, each element is in a conjugacy class by itself, and the character table involves powers of a single element known as a group generator

group generator
is a set of group elements such that possibly repeated application of the generators on themselves and each other is capable of producing all the elements in the group. Cyclic groups can be generated as powers of a single generator.
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What group is not abelian?

A non-Abelian group, also sometimes known as a noncommutative group, is a group some of whose elements do not commute. The simplest non-Abelian group is the dihedral group D3, which is of group order six.

Are all simple groups abelian?

the only simple abelian groups are the groups of prime order, which are all finite. there are infinite simple groups, which are hence non-abelian.

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